Werner Nekes
Werner Nekes was born in 1944 in Erfurt and studied linguistics and psychology in Freiburg. He then went to Bonn in 1964 where he was a head of the University Film Club and later chairman of the FIAG. He developed friendships with film directors, sculptors and painters. These included Dore 0., his companion and collaborator since 1967.
He began painting in 1965 with diverse materials and objects.
He started his practice of film with 8mm and went on with 16mm. He decided to free the film from narration and psychology and organized his films according to temporal units and structural systems.
In spring 1967, his films were rejected by the Kurzfilmtage of Oberhausen. Thus, Nekes organized a counter-event.
The same year in November, he comes to Hamburg with Dore 0., whom he marries the following month. He was a co-founder of the Hamburg cooperative of filmmakers and was a co-organizer of the « Hamburger Filmschau » in 1967. From 1973, he travelled all over the world to make seminaries about film theory and retrospectives. He moved to Mülheim an der Ruhr in summer 1978.
He co-founded the Filmbüro NW in 1980 and the ICNC (International Center for New Cinema) in Riga in 1988.
His work was shown at major international museums and festivals, including The Museum of Modern Art New York, or the Kassel Dokumenta.
He was also a professor: from 1969 to 1972 and 2004 to 2006 at the Academy of Fine Arts (Hochschule für Bildende Künste) in Hamburg, from 1981 to 1982 at Wuppertal University, from 1982 to 1984 at the Kunsthochschule Offenbach, and, from 1990-96 at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne.
Furthermore, Nekes has compiled one of the most important private collections of artefacts documenting 500 years of pre-cinematographic experiments as well as developments in the early history of film, focusing on spatial and temporal principles of representation.
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Movies (78)
Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures
2017 · Self
EXPRMNTL
2016 · Himself
Eva Hesse
2016 · Self
Downup
2010 · Director
Womanbird
2008 · Director
The Critical Mass
1999 · Himself
Birth of a Nation
1997 · Self
The Day of the Painter
1997 · Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography, Editor
Multi-Thousand Picture Show
1996 · Director
Beyond the Image
1996 · Director, Producer, Writer
Pictures Come to Life
1996 · Director, Writer, Producer
The Ambiguous Image and Space
1996 · Director, Writer, Producer
The Magic Drum
1996 · Writer, Director, Producer
00 Schneider - Jagd auf Nihil Baxter
1994 · Man in Swimclothing
Film Before Film
1987 · Self, Director
Johnny Flash
1986 · Director, Screenplay
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
Cinématon XXVII
1982 · N°261
Cinématon n°261 : Werner Nekes
1982
Uliisses
1982 · Director, Writer
Beuys
1981 · Director
Peggy und die anderen oder Wer trägt die Avantgarde?
1980 · Director
The Bengali Night
1980 · Co-Director
Little Night
1979 · Director
Hurrycan
1979 · Director
Horly
1979 · Director
Bei der Lichtbildnerin
1978 · Director
Cinématon
1978 · N°261
Mirador
1978 · Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
Lagado
1977 · Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
Falun
1976 · Director
Textur
1976 · Director
Knoten
1976 · Director
Amalgam I-IV
1976 · Director
Geflecht
1976 · Director
Gewebe
1976 · Director
Photophthalmia
1975 · Director
Makimono
1974 · Director
Kaskara
1974
Diwan
1974 · Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor, Producer
Hynningen
1974 · Director
Alternatim
1974 · Director
Kantilene
1974 · Director
Sun-A-Mul
1974 · Director
Moto
1974 · Director
Blonde Barbarei
1973
Arbatax
1973 · Director
T-Wo-Men
1972 · Director
Aus Altona
1972 · Director
Spacecut
1971 · Director
Abbandono
1970 · Director
Nebula
1969 · Director
Lawale
1969 · Director of Photography
Palimpsest
1969 · Director
Kelek
1968 · Director
Alaska
1968 · Producer, Director of Photography
Mama, da steht ein Mann
1968 · Director
Vis-à-vis
1968 · Director
Gruppenfilm
1968 · Director
Zipzibbelip
1968 · Director
Tarzan’s Kampf mit dem Gorilla
1968 · Director
Muhkuh
1968 · Director
K/örper
1967 · Director
Gurtrug N°1
1967 · Director
Gurtrug N°2
1967 · Director
Ach wie gut, daß niemand weiß
1967 · Director
Kratz-, Beiß-, Licht-, Loch- und Flickerfilme
1967 · Director
Operation
1967 · Director
Jüm-Jüm
1967 · Director
Das Seminar
1967 · Director
Schwarzhuhnbraunhuhnschwarzhuhnweißhuhnrothuhnweiß oder put-putt
1967 · Director
Bogen
1967 · Director
Schnitte für Ababa
1967 · Director
Die grosse Pumpelei
1967 · Editor
Start
1966 · Director, Producer
Fehlstart
1966 · Director
Artikel
1966 · Director
Tom Doyle und Eva Hesse
1965 · Director
